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barefooted

[bair-foot] Origin

bare·foot

[bair-foot]
adjective, adverb
1.
Also, bare·foot·ed. with the feet bare: a barefoot boy; to walk barefoot.
2.
Carpentry. (of a post or stud) secured to a sill or the like without mortising.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English barfot, Old English bærfōt. See bare1, foot
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Barefooted is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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barefoot or barefooted (ˈbɛəˌfʊt)
 
adj, —adv
with the feet uncovered
 
barefooted or barefooted
 
adj, —adv

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barefoot
O.E. bærfot; see bare + foot.
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